Excitement. Nerves. Butterflies? Well, I am sure they were all present in the Banstead TaeKwon-Do under 13′s Yellow and Green Team that took part in the TKD Impact League competition on Saturday March 9th. For most of the 10 Banstead junior TKD students that took part this was their first competition and they all took [...]
When: April 3rd – 5th 2013 What: TaeKwon-Do Easter Camp with Master Dennis VII Where: Tadworth Primary School Every year Master Dennis runs a very successful boot camp for Junior TaeKwon-Do students and this year promises to be excellent. if you’re children are around for the 3 days in April then get them along to [...]
I know this post is way late, way behind time, but here’s just a little note about the demonstration we performed at the Priory School Christmas Fayre in 2012 December 2nd, I think, and a large number of Banstead TKD students attended our annual demonstration at the Priory School Christmas Fayre. This year we’d had [...]
BOOM – IT’S HERE, 2013 Just a quick note to say Thank You to all students who attended the first classes of 2013 on Wednesday 2nd January. Well done for making the effort to get down to training and judging by your smiling faces you all had a great time, perhaps brought on by my [...]
TKD Impact, our governing body, in 2012 started a league tournament for it’s members. Throughout the year several competitions were held and Saturday October 20th was the final one for this year. This competition was for yellow belts and higher and for 13 – 17 year old’s and then 18 years plus, it was also [...]
WOW, What a great time we had with some fantastic friends back where I started TaeKwon-Do, Montrose in Scotland. Mr Boydell, 4th Degree, is a good friend of mine. We trained TaeKwon-Do through the old ’90’s in Montrose, Scotland, our instructor was Mr McNairn, 6th Degree. Mr Boydell, and his wife Mrs Ngaire Boydell, 2nd [...]
February has been a superb month! People have improved so much since the beginning of the year, classes have grown and student’s interest is deepening. Fitness is really coming along well and kicking skills are getting better. Choosing Student of the Month for each age group has been trick this month, with everyone doing so [...]
James and Laura about to spar One of the coolest things about teaching TaeKwon-Do Martial Arts and Self Defence is seeing how people grow, improve, learn and make friends. Teaching one class a week gives people a GOOD opportunity, but teaching two classes a week gives people a GREAT opportunity to learn TKD, do sparring, [...]
The first training session in October for Martial Arts and TaeKwon-Do in Banstead, Surrey was AWESOME! All regulars made a big effort to haul themselves from the comfort of a warm and dry home & travel through a particularly grim night, some even walking through the rain, to attend Banstead TaeKwon-Do. (ok, it was only [...]
Meaning: Kwang-Gae is named after the famous Kwang Gae To Wang, the 19th King of the Kogoryo Dynasty, who regained all the lost territories including the greater part of Manchuria. The diagram represents expansion and recovery of lost territories. The 39 movements refer to the first two digits of 391 AD, the year he came to [...]
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